NIKOLSKOE, Russia (April 1) – Fourteen more members of a Russian doomsday cult emerged on Tuesday from the remote underground bunker where they had been holed up for six months awaiting the end of the world.A local official said part of their dugout collapsed, persuading the cult members God was sending them a message to come to the surface. Another 14 people were still in the dugout but officials were hopeful they too would come out.”At 7:20 they began coming out voluntarily and said that God had given them a signal to leave after the fourth partial cave-in,” said Oleg Melnichenko, deputy governor of the Penza region where members have been holed up since October.”Fourteen people came out, among them two young girls aged eight and 12,” Melnichenko told Reuters on the remote hillside near to the mouth of the dugout.”All are in good health, considering they have spent half a year underground. They have refused medical attention and are now in a house, praying, where they say they will stay until Orthodox Easter (on April 27).”He said the remaining 14 members were in another chamber that had been cut off from the exit by the cave-in and that negotiations were ongoing to persuade them to leave. Rescue workers were preparing to dig down to them.The cult members had earlier said they would not come out before the apocalypse, which their leader Pavel Kuznetsov — who is now undergoing court-ordered psychiatric treatment — had predicted would happen in April or May this year.Seven female cult members left the dugout at the weekend after meltwater caused part of the earth structure to collapse.The sect is a splinter group of the Russian Orthodox church. They reject processed food and say bar codes on products are the work of Satan.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/more-leave-doomsday-cult-bunker/20080401124309990001OK all here’s the discussion: Should stupid people be allowed to breed? Maybe you should have an IQ test when you’re 12, and a quick and easy surgical procedure if you don’t do well? OK so seriously. Here’s a great example of people changing their religious beliefs without challenging the wisdom of those beliefs — “God wanted us to go, and then God changed his mind, telling us to get out before we all die”. Oh and the end of the world isn’t coming. It’s just Orthodox Easter. Nevermind.
i don’t think they had a permit to be a church as such they should face full penalty of the law there is also question of trespass if they didn’t own the land.
i hope they are forced to pay for the rescue effort.
bush saw vladmir putins soul what did putin see.
Who cares if some religious nutters die? It’s their right to hole up in a cave and starve if they want to. Moving on…
“ok, our omniscient god told us to go await the appocalypse… but then later came back and told us that he was waiting for some stuff to work out and we’d have to take a rain check.
you know, mysterious ways and all… that rascal”
alex
it is not everyday you have a group of people holed up in a cave for half a year.i wonder did the voice of god sound like gorbachev or charlton heston.
Reason-
Someone farted and they mistook the ensuing echo as the voice of god. The reverb must have caused the cave in.
“Damn, didn’t know god smelled so bad.”
Sorry, but a few delicious beers forced their way down my throat tonight.
Are they so certain the collapse wasn’t the beginning of their apocalypse? Maybe god was just starting there first. Had they been good little sheeple and stayed, perhaps god would have ‘believed’ and spread the apocalypse to the rest of the world. Now he’s pissed that his followers are a bunch of pussies, so NO APOCALYPSE FOR YOU!
They dun ruint the master plan!
Bones
You nailed it!
I thought they were contenders for this year’s Darwin Award but … oh well, maybe next apocalypse.
Anybody got a good jesus joke?
Ya, What! I just return from a party in which I was persuading a christian that I was a christian bisexual! The guy got so scared that he had to go home
. I’ve had homosexuals harass me to the point of being totally disgusted, so I didn’t feel bad about coming on to this total christian asshole. It was way too funny, the christian finally left and everyone else was happy to see the preacher go!
Ha Ha! Fuck you jesus freaks!
Rna2dna
Wow.
I don’t advocate any kind of penis chopping, not circumcision, and especially not castration! You are such a Jewish Atheist, Dave, common!!!!!
A more accurate question would be, “Why do intelligent people believe and behave irrationally?”
I find it incredible that
highly intelligent professional people who are well educated and leaders in their communities can attend Benny Hinn crusades and dance around like mindless lunatics.
Take Ben Stein, for example. Poke fun if you will, but Stein has an extraordinary high IQ.
Here’s a link to a review of Stein’s new film, Expelled:
http://www.expelledexposed.com/
I find rejecting processed food to be a sensible doctrine. But that’s about it.
Seeker
Ben Stein is a fraud. He goes around billing himself as an economist. He has a bachelors degree in economics. I guess I’m a chemist and mathematician.
High IQ? Yeh right! Did you watch Expelled?
Come on! You christian pansies, fourth partial cave-in, get a gut!
If you christians think I am over the top, why not pull your god-idea out and set it on full throttle, metal jacket, hmmm?
Suck it, Jesus Christ!
I thought that gawd never gives you more than you can handle. I thought they had a good half dozen partial cave-ins in them.
Can somebody fill me in. Why did these people think that a cave was a good place in which to wait for or wait-out their apocalypse? It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry’s childhood summertime friend digs a hole in central park and sits in it (apparently a oft repeated behavior) because Jerry didn’t like the present he gave him.
I might still turn on the idiot box if Seinfeld was still on … nah!
Big Jesus, Big Anti-Jesus, and Smiling Buddha bump into each other in their favorite supercollider after work one day …. the end!
You can still have a high IQ and have a mental illness.
Anyone see phreedumb lately? (Not that I associate him with a high IQ, just wondering)
I couldn’t agree more.
Quite a few of our home-grown wackos think bar codes are the work of the Antichrist. Having worked in retail I found them to be an extraordinarily useful tool for inventory management, but whatever.
Why are we surprised by this bizarre behavior? Jim Jones comes to mind…..
“Will someone save us from that damnable priest?”
Bar Codes aren’t even the best! I once had a seventh day adventist try to convince me that church should be on Saturday, because it’s the sabbath. Church on Sunday is, to quote, “One of them damned evil lie-brals who are out to ban christianity, and Sunday worship is the mark of the beast and it will be tattooed on those who fall for the lie of Satan”. Oh well… I guess you can’t be in style for every apocalyse.
Bones
I agree totally with what. You nailed it!!! NO APOCALYPSE FOR YOU!!! hehehe
God as the apocalypse nazi!
What
Where did you study Chemistry, if you don’t mind me asking. Did you do a BA or a BS?
Pha
I don’t mind the asking.
Augustine,
I didn’t realize that the “SUNDAY SABBATH IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST!” billboards were the work of the Seventh Day Adventists (a group best known for having their babies eaten by dingos). I see those when I have the misfortune to have to drive through south Alabama.
Dingoes? Are you serious? I can’t tell if your joking or being honest, because there has been a miracle crusade in my area and the snake handlers have came out of hibernation. It’s amazing how after observing these people nothing will suprise you. A little bit of irrelevant local news:
A man was driving from virgina to maryland and would up in georgia. He claimed he was trying to get to where god wanted him. He was taken to a local hospital for a mental stability test, and relatives from Maryland flew into Atlanta to meet him. Question is: where was god trying to get him and what for? He really is mysterious, you know.
“A destructive tongue is self-destructive.”
[snip] – no preaching!
Evolution and Religion Can Coexist, Scientists Say
“Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” ?Albert Einstein
Joel Primack has a long and distinguished career as an astrophysicist. A University of California, Santa Cruz, professor, he co-developed the cold dark matter theory that seeks to explain the formation and structure of the universe.
Emerge in Humans?
He also believes in God.
That may strike some people as peculiar. After all, in some corners popular belief renders science and religion incompatible.
Yet scientists may be just as likely to believe in God as other people, according to surveys. Some of history’s greatest scientific minds, including Albert Einstein, were convinced there is intelligent life behind the universe. Today many scientists say there is no conflict between their faith and their work.
“In the last few years astronomy has come together so that we’re now able to tell a coherent story” of how the universe began, Primack said. “This story does not contradict God, but instead enlarges [the idea of] God.”
Evolution
The notion that science and religion are irreconcilable centers in large part on the issue of evolution. Charles Darwin, in his 1859 book The Origin of Species, explained that the myriad species inhabiting Earth were a result of repeated evolutionary branching from common ancestors.
One would be hard pressed to find a legitimate scientist today who does not believe in evolution. As laid out in a cover story in the November issue of National Geographic magazine, the scientific evidence for evolution is overwhelming.
Yet in a 2001 Gallup poll 45 percent of U.S. adults said they believe evolution has played no role in shaping humans. According to the creationist view, God produced humans fully formed, with no previous related species.
But what if evolution is God’s tool? Darwin never said anything about God. Many scientists?and theologians?maintain that it would be perfectly logical to think that a divine being used evolution as a method to create the world.
to find out more!
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
October 18, 2004
“God wanted us to go, and then God changed his mind, telling us to get out before we all die”.
So they were convinced they were right and the apocalypse was coming… But when that didn’t pan out, ‘God changed his mind’ was the best they could come up with?
Sounds like someone trying to justify why their prayer for a new iPod didn’t work.